Alison Assiter Quotes
I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.
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I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.
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This dress code should be mandatory for most events.
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I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction. It's problematic because you don't want to tell people don't aid, don't help, when people feel a need to.
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People somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography.
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Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
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A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
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I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.
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I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's going on. They've been exposed to a contemporary Christian idea that sex itself is evil and bad, which I'm not so sure was Jesus' idea. For me, the Buddhist approach isn't that sex itself is evil or bad but that sex is neutral. It's the way you do it that can problematic.
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Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.
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For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.
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If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.
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Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.
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There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]
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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
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I tried heroin once and I didn't like it. It frightened me.
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This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
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I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
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I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
